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CustomText: Customized Textual Image Generation using Diffusion Models

arXiv 2405.12531 ↗First posted 21 May 2024cs.CV cs.LGcited by 2

On the map: Diffusion models → Image generation, text-to-image and editing

Abstract (arXiv)

Textual image generation spans diverse fields like advertising, education, product packaging, social media, information visualization, and branding. Despite recent strides in language-guided image synthesis using diffusion models, current models excel in image generation but struggle with accurate text rendering and offer limited control over font attributes. In this paper, we aim to enhance the synthesis of high-quality images with precise text customization, thereby contributing to the advancement of image generation models. We call our proposed method CustomText. Our implementation leverages a pre-trained TextDiffuser model to enable control over font color, background, and types. Additionally, to address the challenge of accurately rendering small-sized fonts, we train the ControlNet model for a consistency decoder, significantly enhancing text-generation performance. We assess the performance of CustomText in comparison to previous methods of textual image generation on the publicly available CTW-1500 dataset and a self-curated dataset for small-text generation, showcasing superior results.

Key facts. Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Image generation, text-to-image and editing, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models. Builds on 22 of its 33 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 21 May 2024.

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22 of 33 references.

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  1. 2023TextDiffuser: Diffusion Models as Text Painters18 May
  2. 2023T2I-Adapter: Learning Adapters to Dig out More Controllable Ability for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models16 Feb
  3. 2023Adding Conditional Control to Text-to-Image Diffusion Models10 Feb
  4. 2022eDiff-I: Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with an Ensemble of Expert Denoisers2 Nov
  5. 2022DiffEdit: Diffusion-based semantic image editing with mask guidance20 Oct
  6. 2022DreamBooth: Fine Tuning Text-to-Image Diffusion Models for Subject-Driven Generation25 Aug
  7. 2022Photorealistic Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with Deep Language Understanding23 May
  8. 2022Hierarchical Text-Conditional Image Generation with CLIP Latents13 Apr

Other references · 14

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  2. 2020Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Modelscited by 21,076
  3. 2021High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Modelscited by 18,863
  4. 2019Exploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Text-to-Text Transformercited by 14,599
  5. 2022Prompt-to-Prompt Image Editing with Cross Attention Controlcited by 2,431
  6. 2021CLIPScore: A Reference-free Evaluation Metric for Image Captioningcited by 2,424
  7. 2022An Image is Worth One Word: Personalizing Text-to-Image Generation using Textual Inversioncited by 2,245
  8. 2023Consistency Modelscited by 1,822
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  1. 2017Detecting Curve Text in the Wild: New Dataset and New Solutioncited by 83
  2. 2024Glyph-ByT5: A Customized Text Encoder for Accurate Visual Text Renderingcited by 81

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  1. 2023Customization Assistant for Text-to-image Generation
  2. 2024Improving Text Generation on Images with Synthetic Captions
  3. 2024Typographic Text Generation with Off-the-Shelf Diffusion Model
  4. 2023Custom-Edit: Text-Guided Image Editing with Customized Diffusion Models
  5. 2024JoyType: A Robust Design for Multilingual Visual Text Creation
  6. 2025DesignDiffusion: High-Quality Text-to-Design Image Generation with Diffusion Models
  7. 2024Conditional Text-to-Image Generation with Reference Guidance
  8. 2024Refining Text-to-Image Generation: Towards Accurate Training-Free Glyph-Enhanced Image Generation